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Author Archives: George Leopold
George Leopold
George Leopold has written about science and technology for more than 30 years, focusing on electronics and aerospace technology. He previously served as executive editor of Electronic Engineering Times. Leopold is the author of "Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom" (Purdue University Press, 2016).Google Buys Cloud Software Startup
August 17th, 2016 Comments Off on Google Buys Cloud Software Startup
In an attempt to keep pace with its cloud rivals, Google has acquired a cloud enterprise services startup and its platform for buying and selling enterprise software in the cloud. Orbitera's platform helps independent software vendors and systems integrators ...
Blockchain VC Funding Grows With Deployments
August 16th, 2016 Comments Off on Blockchain VC Funding Grows With Deployments
Blockchain and other "crypto-currency" technologies are gathering momentum as investors continue to pour money into digital transaction approaches while banks shift from pilot projects to production deployments. According to estimates by U.K. market analyst Juniper Research, venture capitalists invested ...
Micron, Intel Prepare to Launch XPoint Memory
August 15th, 2016 Comments Off on Micron, Intel Prepare to Launch XPoint Memory
Micron Technology Inc. used last week's Flash Memory Summit to roll out its new line of 3-D XPoint memory technology jointly developed with Intel Corp. while demonstrating the technology in solid-state drives. Micron (NASDAQ: MU) claimed its Quantx line ...
U.S. Open Source Policy Seeks to Leverage Code Reuse
August 12th, 2016 Comments Off on U.S. Open Source Policy Seeks to Leverage Code Reuse
The Obama administration has released a new federal open-source policy for improving access to software developed by or for federal agencies. The new policy released this week by Tony Scott, the Obama administration's CIO, "requires new custom-developed source code ...
Startup Touts ‘Mixed Reality’ for IoT apps
August 11th, 2016 Comments Off on Startup Touts ‘Mixed Reality’ for IoT apps
A Google-backed startup emerging from stealth mode this week is pitching a concept called the "real world web," a cloud-based platform designed to capitalize on emerging virtual reality technology to deliver "mixed reality." Big league ballparks are among the ...
Virtual Net Guides Containers Across Multiple Clouds
August 10th, 2016 Comments Off on Virtual Net Guides Containers Across Multiple Clouds
The latest release of a network virtualization overlay is designed to connect multiple OpenStack cloud implementations while providing a software-defined networking (SDN) approach to emerging container orchestration engines making their way into production. San Francisco-based network virtualization specialist Midokura ...
IT Security Shifts From Reactive to Proactive
August 9th, 2016 Comments Off on IT Security Shifts From Reactive to Proactive
With security threats growing more sophisticated, the market for information security products is expected to boom over the next five years, led by security testing, IT outsourcing and data loss prevention offerings. Market watcher Gartner Inc. (NYSE: IT) said ...
Mostly Cloudy: IBM Weather Unit to Guide Drones
August 5th, 2016 Comments Off on Mostly Cloudy: IBM Weather Unit to Guide Drones
Among the array of sensors being incorporated in Internet of Things architectures are fleets of drones being used to deliver cloud-based data such as hyper-local weather reports. The Weather Company, a cloud-based weather data platform acquired by IBM (NYSE: ...
Boeing Uses Stat Data to Get the Lead Out
August 4th, 2016 Comments Off on Boeing Uses Stat Data to Get the Lead Out
The manufacturing sector that is leading the way in factory automation and the leading edge of the Internet of Things, the so-called industrial IoT, is increasingly relying on statistical data to develop simulation tools that could be used for ...
Intel Among Investors in Cognitive Computing Startup
August 3rd, 2016 Comments Off on Intel Among Investors in Cognitive Computing Startup
The scaling of machine intelligence technology in the enterprise continues apace with another successful venture funding round reported by a cognitive computing startup. CognitiveScale of Austin, Texas, said Tuesday (Aug. 2) that Intel Capital and Norwest Venture Partners led ...